Feedback The Mystery of Herbs II

Howdy Farmers,

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Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding "The Mystery of Herbs II" Event in this Feedback thread. We are looking forward to capturing your initial reaction to the event, as well as the final opinion after participating in the event.

Please be sure to bring arguments for supporting your statements, simple comments saying you like it or hate it will not help the Team understand what goes great, and what needs to be looked into, when planning future events.

The FAQ of the Event can be found here. If you have any questions, please use the General Issues section or the Technical Issues section for technical problems - this thread is for feedback only. Thank you for understanding.

We are looking forward to your feedback!​

Best regards,
Your Farmerama Team

 

Manure as a reward come on BP, I know you are reducing the rewards been given out but come on.

Also 2 drops that are donateable another request that some of us have asked not to have anymore....so what do we give our neighbours.

Lets see how it goes

 

So sick of the mini games garbage. they are a waste of time and so random to win. I prefer not to have chance play a role in events. It doesn't take skill to win, just luck or a good RNG.

I also don't like a huge list of cheap rewards with all the good ones buried near the end.

Oh well, it is what you want, not me.

 

I like this event, but I agree with what has been said above, lately ALL events have the mini games, which, while fun, are more time consuming. I wish they were part of maybe one of every four or five events. Also, WHY must we have ANOTHER event at the same time? I realize the other one does not require crops, but still - you are overloading us. All you have to do is read the feedback and see that even the happy players are starting to get burnt out, you are losing your marginal players at a rate that would put a hospital out of business, and where the strategy threads used to have ten pages of people posting ideas, now it is maybe two pages, mostly people stating they are not playing. This is a wonderful game, and the events can be fun and inspiring -but you are killing all the joy. Make the events something we can look forward to, not drudgery - and WE WILL SPEND MORE MONEY TO DO THEM!!!!

 

I agree with what has been said above.

I'm going to repeat myself on feedback since it seems our feedback isn't taken into consideration just in the hopes that maybe something might finally sink in. Unfortunately, you don't provide me much hope because others have gone before me to tread this same path going on deaf ears.

I'm just plain fed up with multiple events at one time. Your events really aren't bad events, it's just that I am tired of having so much to concentrate on. I spend way too much time on something that is a GAME. Also, a few events utilizing mini games within them can be fun but let's break the monotony of it being a part of every event lately.

Wouldn't you like to get more positive feedback for the efforts you go through to try to make this game interesting and for trying new ideas? That could easily come if you would just back off on the multiple events at the same time. It's also been requested time after time to not have to make a decision about which drop to give to our neighbors. If you would just do a few adjustments to requests, players would be happier and more inclined to spend money. Although, quite honestly, that ship may have sailed with this player.

I'm not going to fret this event and do some normal farming. I've already stopped paying premium on my other farm. I'm getting real close to doing the same with this one. If, when, I make that decision, I'll also make the decision to stop playing all together. I like the game but NOT what you are doing to it and your players. There are other FREE games out there that actually appreciate and listen to their players and are fun to play.
I'm just plain fed up with multiple events at one time. Your events really aren't bad events, it's just that I am just tired of having so much to concentrate on. I spend way too much time on something that is a GAME. Also, a few events utilizing mini games within them can be fun but let's break the monotony of it being a part of every event lately. A person can't even skim the FAQ any more to get a gist of an event. You have to read it multiple times to understand all the parts. That also takes time.

I'm not going to fret this event and do some normal farming. If I feel inclined, I might do a few levels, but frankly, I'm not psyched to do these next events because I'm tired of thinking and planning for this game. I've already stopped paying premium on my other farm. I'm getting real close to doing the same with this one. If, when, I make that decision, I'll also make the decision to stop playing all together. I like the game but NOT what you are doing to it and your players.

 

This is far far too many steps to do to get far far too little in return. I totally agree with the other comments. It would be much more enjoyable if we had ONE event at a time, run from the special events field (so that our normal farming activities continue to go on), and that that event is doable by virtually all players. I like the hidden treasure game, but I don't want to play it just to plant something to get something else. Just give me a reward for doing the hidden treasure game. Getting the things to play that is enough work.

 

This could be a good event if the variables were not so extreme. I could get between 1 and 9 crates for the Buried Treasure bit which might give me between 1 and 5 seeds. So I could get just one seed or forty five (if my calculations are correct) Add to that the drops required to make the Greenhouses and it is not worth the effort in the hope I get lucky. Needless to say I will not be doing this event.

 

The drop rates are terrible. I've only been able to make one greenhouse, because I haven't been getting enough drops to make another one yet - despite growing crops on all three fields. That we might only end up with a few seeds, that again take HOURS to grow, for prizes that are not at all worth it, makes this already a dud of an event.

I'm not even remotely going to stress about this event - or any other event from now on, as they're all the same. Set up as nothing more than money grabs for BP, that you've almost certainly got to spend real money on if you want to finish - or get near the bottom of the prize list, where any prizes worth getting always are. The events are not fun, they're more often than not just frustrating with BP never listening to the feedback given, instead just recycling the same type of event again and again despite users telling you why they don't enjoy them.

I've only recently come back after years away from Farmerama, but I can see that little has changed from the reasons why I stopped playing in the first place. BP still doesn't listen to the userbase. I'm already tired of the events that require milling products to be used in the mini-games and it seems unlikely that that is going to change any time soon. Not to mention having multiple events at the same time.

 

I don't even know how to get the seed... so.. Im done.

 

You need to play the mini game first. You can find more info here: https://board-en.farmerama.com/index.php?threads/the-mystery-of-herbs-ii.34775/#post-217218

 

I finished all the tasks from the left.
A big negative vote from me. Why?:
- the crates should give 1,3 or 5 seeds. So if it would have been equal chances- then I should have had an average of 3 seeds/crate. I've got around 1.5 !!! Very frustrating.
- due to the above reason I had to try to get 9 crates for each time. So I try the map game again and again, sometimes even 8+ times . very frustrated and annoying. And the mini game itself didn't bring me any joy.
I had to use a lot of resourses: SG, Jack o'gift, party tickets.
I have to mention that I didn't have any problems with the drop due to having enough Howie.
Conclusion : The event wasn't difficult, just frustarting and I am sorry I started it.
It's a NO from me

 

Given we require the crops in essentially equal numbers, we should get seeds in equal numbers too. I have considerably fewer water berry seeds than I do of the other two crops, and am already struggling to make up the numbers, despite only being on level 16 of the right hand side list. 55 crops would take me 3 greenhouses to obtain with how few water berry seeds I am currently receiving. I have enough of the other crops to have advanced much further, but I am unable to move on as I do not receive enough water berry seeds to grow the required number of crops.

 

I am stuck because of the Valley Rose. I need about 190 to get further, but it seems I have to wait again because I got the other 2 seeds...and no Valley Rose...I so not happy with this event, it's boring and annoying

I think I will stop right here and not prolong this agony
Good luck the all that are brave to continue!

 

marlene and squiggle, I know it does not help the annoyance, but you can either buy what you are short of in the market or exchange your seeds, I knows its unfair, but its how BP has thrown this one together. Either way you go, you loose. Seeds are going very high in the market, but they are so up and down in price, you could sell what you have extra of, and buy the other, as the exchange rate 5 for 1 is just so unfair, I refuse to do this, and to lower that exchange number, they want way too many barn stock, so I am gonna sell one seed and buy the other if needed.

 

Drops are pathetic for this event .. And I am not going to buy them to finish this event ...when this is suppose to be a free game
Most of the events I have played lately ...I haven't been able to finish ...not from lack of playing ...Have sat hours.... to end up with NOTHING

 

On the up side....I did get to pull out my stables and workshops that I've had stashed in my barn in order to free up my fields for all those events (that keep coming back to back to back) that need crops!

 

Somebody in a meeting must have said, "Let's list everything the players hate about events and then put them all in the same event."

1. Three different event plants all with different grow times
2. Unrealistic requirements of those event plants
3. Two drop items
4. Lousy drop rates of those drop items
5. Mill product
6. Not just a mill product, but let's make it only available in main mill so players have to choose between making powerfeed and participating in the event.
7. Bring back a boring mini-game that has to be played an outrageous number of times
8. Let's make playing the mini-game the only way to get seeds to grow the event plants
9. After playing the mini-game, lets only give the players a few event plant seeds, and not necessarily the seeds they need.
10. Just to make it fun, let's add an extra step of awarding the event plant seeds in a crate so there's more clicking to get to them before they can be planted.

Did I cover it all?

Side note: It's nice to see the devs are developing cute mini-games, but once they've been introduced, why can't they be added to Renzo's Fair rather than being repeated in main events? They cease to be fun when they have to be played so many times.

 

Well said! Janisella. I didn't do this event for all the reasons you've mentioned.

Tell me BP, when did it become your mission to spoil our fun?

 

Because if it has....the last 6 events have supported your mission
Seed exhanged...didnt bother.
Drops were non-existent
Baby Boom only way to get the drops needed.

You guys are getting worse...not better

 

Contrary to others, I've actually really enjoyed this event. However, that's because most other players take part in all the other events you put on, and are consequently burnt out and don't have time for their own farms. I rarely participate, so this is a fun change for me.

I quite like the prizes, and it's not too taxing to play. That said, it would be nice to have an event where one didn't have to pull out all the stops to finish. I don't want to be ripping up my farm or using thousands of resources to finish.

Please don't take my enjoyment of this event as an excuse not to listen to the many players who have told you time and time again that it needs to change.